{"quotes":[{"text":"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["abyss","afterlife","calm","common-sense","cradle","darkness","death","eternity","existence","life","life-after-death","light","man"],"id":2057,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"Never lose your sense of common sense.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["common-sense","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","quotes"],"id":2426,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.","author":"Henry Ford","tags":["common-sense","inspirational"],"id":2677,"author_id":"Henry+Ford"},{"text":"They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.","author":"Siobhán Parkinson","tags":["common-sense","divorce","love"],"id":4193,"author_id":"Siobh%C3%A1n+Parkinson"},{"text":"Never look a gift horse in the mouth.","author":"Jerome","tags":["common-sense","gifts"],"id":4473,"author_id":"Jerome"},{"text":"No one is absolutely free from the woes of life. Not even the one who thinks he is free from the uncertainties of life. Difficulties, challenges, problems and the puzzles of life are a must meet for all and sundry, be it small or enormous, and they are what separate the rich from the poor, the masters from the servants, the wonder from the wander and the givers from the beggars. Our ability to be firm and overcome the storms of life shall enlighten our light to make us different. In life, you either solve that problem or you always have that problem. People are uncommon because they overcome the common problems with common sense and tenacity. If you live your life without providing a panacea to a problem each day, ponder!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["challenging-life","common-sense","difficulties-in-life","free-from-troubles","knowing-you","life","life-issues","living-the-best-life","making-a-difference","no-one-is-free","overcoming-challenges","problems-of-life","problems-to-solve","staying-on-top","tenacity","time-management","understanding-life","why-are-people-different"],"id":5050,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.","author":"Peter F. Hamilton","tags":["common-sense","recycling","society","waste"],"id":13355,"author_id":"Peter+F.+Hamilton"},{"text":"It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["common-sense","deception","realities-of-life","realization","shift","small-things"],"id":14284,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["common-sense","health-and-wealth","life-lessons","mankind","men","nature","nature-of-man","perception","signified","society","spiritual","spiritual-perception","symbol","taste","the-perfect-man"],"id":16253,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.","author":"Kelly Moran","tags":["common-sense","drinking","drunk","enamored","love"],"id":16892,"author_id":"Kelly+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":252,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}